SEEK TO PLEASE ME above all else. Let that goal be your focal point as you go through this day. Such a mind-set will protect you from scattering your energy to the winds. The free will I bestowed on you comes with awesome responsibility. Each day presents you with choice after choice. Many of these decisions you ignore and thus make by default. Without a focal point to guide you, your can easily lost your way. That’s why it is so important to stay in communication with Me, living in thankful awareness of My Presence.
You inhabit a fallen, disjointed world, where things are constantly unraveling around the edges. Only a vibrant relationship with Me can keep you from coming unraveled too.
Matthew 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
John 8:29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.
Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive and inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
Michael & Alison Smitherman
The Singing NetSurfers
I will sing to my Lord as long as I live, I will sing
praise to my God while I have my being.
If we focus on the presence of God and seek to please him (do his will), then everything we need will be supplied to ensure our joy and peace. This is not easy, but the reward is infinite.
Staying focused,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
A beautiful response form a gardener who helped inspire this blog. Blessings, Z
I sure do enjoy, and look forward to, the new writers’ batch of meditations. I like reading “First Person” guidance.
The “small, quiet” voice is still there (sometimes louder than others); and the Omni-Presence is always discernible. I’m reaching for the golden ring: I.e., “walking and talking with Him in the garden”; a one-on-one personal relationship, and for more powerful prayers with the faith and understanding to match.
An existence where He has sculpted us into that which we need to be, given us all that we need at our disposal and put us in the right place and time, so that the power and grace flow through us to change, heal and fix (when necessary) this world.